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I'm amazed this got as far as the NY Post (not that the Post is a great paper, but it's a step above the scandal rags). The questionable statements appear in a document ordering the pedophile priest to be removed from the Catholic clergy ("laicized"). I assume the phrase "his previous condition" refers to the man having been a cleric. As best I can tell, the pope is saying that he should not live in a place where knowledge of his having at one time been a priest would cause a scandal. The pope is obviously not saying the guy should be transfered to a parish where it isn't known that he is a pedophile because the document itself makes it impossible for him to function as a Catholic priest anywhere at all.